FARMINGTON — Author David Madden, whose novel “The Suicide’s Wife” was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and made into a CBS movie, is the next reader in the University of Maine at Farmington’s Visiting Writers Series.

Madden, who has penned novels, short stories, poetry, plays, literary criticism and literary essays, will give a reading at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 3, in North Dining Hall B in Olsen Student Center, followed by a book signing.

The reading is free and open to the public.

Madden’s novels include “The Beautiful Greed,” based on his Merchant seaman experiences; and “Cassandra Singing,” in the process of being adapted as a film by Warner Brothers; “Pleasure-Dome;” “On the Big Wind;” “Sharpshooter: A Novel of the Civil War;” and “Abducted By Circumstance.”

His collections of stories include “The Shadow Knows,” winner of a National Council on the Arts Award; and “The New Orleans of Possibilities.” Madden’s collections of literary essays include “The Poetic Image in Six Genres” and “Touching the Web of Southern Novelists.”

His stories have appeared in numerous college texts and twice in “Best American Short Stories.” In addition, his poems and short stories have appeared in a wide variety of publications from Redbook and Playboy to The Southern Review and Botteghe Oscure.

A Knoxville, Tenn., native, Madden earned a master’s degree from San Francisco State University and attended Yale Drama School on a John Golden Fellowship. From 1968-92, he was writer-in-residence at Louisiana State University; and, from 1992-1994, he was director of the LSU Creative Writing Program, where he currently holds the position of Robert Penn Warren Professor of Creative Writing, Emeritus.